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<\/p>\nWelcome to The California Post\u2019s weekly Dodgers recap, where baseball writers Dylan Hern\u00e1ndez and Jack Harris review the week that was, hand out very official awards and take stock of the state of the season.<\/p>\n
PLAYER OF THE WEEK<\/p>\n
Shohei Ohtani (.478 average, 6 XBH, 9 RBIs this week; .272 average, .885 OPS, 8 HR, 26 RBIs this season)<\/p>\n
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Denis Poroy-Imagn Images<\/p>\n
It\u2019s no surprise that, just as Ohtani emerged<\/a> from his slump this week, so did the Dodgers\u2019 offense.<\/p>\n From April 28 to May 12, the Dodgers failed to score more than three runs in 10 of 13 games \u2014 a glaring cold spell for their $415 million roster that led to a 4-9 slide. In that stretch, Ohtani was one of their coldest batters, reaching the nadir of his early-season slump with a .143 average and, at one point, an 0-18 drought.<\/p>\n Ohtani has rediscovered his swing (and his approach) lately, however, returning from a two-day break from hitting by reaching safely multiple times in each of his six games since (and seven straight overall).<\/p>\n The Dodgers\u2019 offense, unsurprisingly, has also heated up right along with him, scoring at least four runs in all but one of their last eight games while going 7-1.<\/p>\n How impactful has Ohtani been? In the Dodgers\u2019 last 15 run-scoring innings, Ohtani has contributed in some form, either by getting on base or driving in a run or, as he did to lead off Wednesday\u2019s game, hitting a home run.<\/p>\n As he goes, so does the offense. And lately both have been back in better form.<\/p>\n PITCHER(S) OF THE WEEK Will Klein (right) had four strikeouts and tossed four scoreless innings for the Dodgers. Denis Poroy-Imagn Images<\/p>\n Will Klein (4 scoreless innings, 4 strikeouts, 1 save) and Edgardo Henriquez (3.1 scoreless innings, 4 strikeouts, 1 hold)<\/p>\n When D\u00edaz got hurt, the Dodgers not only lost their closer but also their best right-handed reliever.<\/p>\n It created an opportunity that Klein and Henriquez have taken advantage of.<\/p>\n After their individual postseason heroics in October, both of them entered this year trying to establish themselves as consistent regular-season performers, too.\u00a0<\/p>\n Klein has been much of the year, holding teams scoreless in 11 of his 15 appearances, but has elevated his play while stepping into more high-leverage opportunities lately. It culminated in his first career save on Tuesday, as he retired the side in the ninth in order to preserve a one-run lead.<\/p>\n Dodgers reliever Edgardo Henriquez had four strikeouts and one hold in three-plus scoreless innings. Getty Images<\/p>\n \u201c[I\u2019m] throwing more strikes, attacking guys, not getting behind, not giving up free passes,\u201d Klein said. \u201cThat\u2019s the biggest thing, just trusting my stuff in the zone.\u201d<\/p>\n It\u2019s been the same story with Henriquez, who has trimmed his ERA from 5.23 to 3.26 in the last three weeks. Over his last nine innings, he has yielded one run, struck out eight batters and walked only two. He contributed to both wins in San Diego this week, following up 1 \u2153 scoreless innings Tuesday with a scoreless sixth inning Wednesday against the heart of the Padres\u2019 order.<\/p>\n Between them, Kyle Hurt (who has a 0.64 ERA on the season) and Blake Treinen (who has a 2.08 ERA in his last 10 appearances), the Dodgers\u2019 right-handed relief worries have been alleviated.<\/p>\n PROSPECT(S) OF THE WEEK<\/p>\n Mike Sirota (.325 average, 7 HR, 22 RBIs in High-A this year) and Emil Morales (.323 average, 6 HR, 35 RBIs in Single-A this year)<\/p>\n We have featured Sirota<\/a> and Morales<\/a> in this space previously this year.<\/p>\n This week, both of the highly touted prospects were on the move, with Sirota being promoted to Double-A Tulsa and Morales to High-A Great Lakes.<\/p>\n Those represented some of the most significant moves yet in the Dodgers\u2019 farm system this year. They were also more than warranted for two players who had torn up their early-season competition.<\/p>\n Sirota, 22, is one of the many promising outfielders in the Dodgers\u2019 system, after originally being acquired in a trade for Gavin Lux a couple years ago and returning from a season-ending knee injury last summer.\u00a0<\/p>\n Morales, 19, was an international signing shortstop who, as still a teenager, is already well ahead of the curve by reaching High-A.<\/p>\n FUTURE DODGER OF THE WEEK<\/p>\n (Where we identify a potential Dodgers\u2019 future acquisition \u2013\u2013 sometimes far-fetched, sometimes not)<\/p>\n Mason Miller, Padres (ETA: 2028)<\/p>\n The Padres have a serious problem: Their three highest-paid position players are contributing almost nothing offensively.<\/p>\n Two of them, 33-year-old Manny Machado and Xander Bogaerts, just look old. The other, Fernando Tatis Jr., isn\u2019t the player he was before he tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs.<\/p>\n What makes the situation especially problematic is that their contracts aren\u2019t about to expire anytime soon. Machado\u2019s and Bogaerts\u2019 deals run through 2033; Tatis\u2019 contract expires after the 2034 season.<\/p>\n How could the Padres possibly unload any of these deals? What if they attach Miller, the game\u2019s best closer?\u00a0<\/p>\n OK, so maybe that\u2019s not realistic \u2014 but is it any less realistic than the Padres winning a World Series?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welcome to The California Post\u2019s weekly Dodgers recap, where baseball writers Dylan Hern\u00e1ndez and Jack Harris review the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":705924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2406],"tags":[5,31334,39,7909,1165,4332,4333,774,57,3224,4331,4,31,2099,468,1558,19036],"class_list":["post-705923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-baseball","tag-denis-poroy-imagn","tag-dodgers","tag-edgardo-henriquez","tag-la","tag-la-dodgers","tag-ladodgers","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-losangeles","tag-losangelesdodgers","tag-mlb","tag-offense","tag-scoreless-innings","tag-shohei-ohtani","tag-the-dodgers","tag-will-klein"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116619537901575119","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=705923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/705924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/aol_ny_post_us_news_articles_123\/df56a71942bf7b2b718c371976b557ab.jpeg\"\/)
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